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Calycophyllum plengei
Calycophyllum plengei D.W. Woodcock, H.W. Mey., Y. Prado I.A.W.A. J., 2019, 40(3): 31. 1 Jan 2019
- Name
- Calycophyllum plengei
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Calycophyllum
- Authors (Pub.)
- Woodcock D. W.
Meyer H. W.
Prado Y.
- Publication
- The Piedra Chamana fossil woods (Eocene, Peru) II [2019/1]
- Journal
- IAWA Journal
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2019
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 31
- Year
- 2019
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Bartonian
- Strat. comment
- 39 Mya
- Location
- Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest main site (79°10'W, 6°35' S), near Sexi village, northern Peruvian Andes, Peru
- Paleoregion
- America (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository Number
- USM-S155
- Diagnosis
- Wood with distinct growth rings, diffuse porous. Vessels solitary and in
short to long radial multiples, mean tangential diameter ≤ 50 μm, perforations simple, intervesssel pits alternate, vessel-ray parenchyma pits similar to intervessel pits. Rays 1–4-seriate; multiseriate rays composed of procumbent cells, 1–7 rows of upright to square marginal cells, and occasional sheath cells.
